Nè spegner può per star nellacqua il foco;Nè può stato mutar per mutar loco. Such fire was not by water to be drownd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. AriostoOrlando Furioso. XXVIII. 89.

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave;Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave. Matthew ArnoldA Question. St. 1.

Il ny a rien de changé en France; il ny a quun Français de plus. Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. Proclamation pub. in the Moniteur, April, 1814, as the words of Comte DArtois (afterwards Charles X), on his entrance into Paris. Originated with Count Beugnot. Instigated by Talleyrand. See M. de VaulabelleHist. des Deux Restaurations. 3d Édit. II. Pp. 30, 31. Also Contemporary Review, Feb., 1854.

To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope. CarlyleEssays. Characteristics.

An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam? Can any one find out in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? CiceroDe Finibus Bonorum et Malorum. II. 228.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position and be bruised in a new place. Washington IrvingTales of a Traveller. Preface.

So many great nobles, things, administrations,So many high chieftains, so many brave nations.So many proud princes, and power so splendid,In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended. JacoponeDe Contemptu Mundi. Abraham ColesTrans. in Old Gems in New Settings. P. 75.

I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap. Lincoln, to a delegation of the National Union League who congratulated him on his nomination as the Republican candidate for President, June 9, 1864. As given by J. F. RhodesHist. of the U. S. from the Compromise of 1850. Vol. IV. P. 370. Same in Nicolay and Hay Lincolns Complete Works. Vol. II. P. 532. Different version in Appletons Cyclopedia. RaymondLife and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln. Ch. XVIII. P. 500. (Ed. 1865) says Lincoln quotes an old Dutch farmer, It was best not to swap horses when crossing a stream.

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night,And by going wrong all things come right;Things have been mended that were worse,And the worse, the nearer they are to mend. LongfellowTales of a Wayside Inn. The Baron of St. Castine. L. 265.

Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata,Nec se cognoscunt terræ vertentibus annis,Et mutant variam faciem per sæcula gentes. Everything that is created is changed by the laws of man; the earth does not know itself in the revolution of years; even the races of man assume various forms in the course of ages. ManiliusAstronomica. 515.

Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky, Dreary the leaf lieth low.All things must come to the earth by and by, Out of which all things grow. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)The Wanderer. Earths Havings. Bk. III.

Corporis et fortunæ bonorum ut initium finis est. Omnia orta occidunt, et orta senescunt. As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. SallustJugurtha. II.

That we would do,We should do when we would; for this would changesAnd hath abatements and delays as manyAs there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh,That hurts by easing.Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 119.

All things that we ordained festival,Turn from their office to black funeral;Our instruments to melancholy bells,Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,And all things change them to the contrary.Romeo and Juliet. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 84.

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made;Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade,But doth suffer a sea-changeInto something rich and strange.Tempest. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 396.

The life of any one can by no means be changed after death; an evil life can in no wise be converted into a good life, or an infernal into an angelic life: because every spirit, from head to foot, is of the character of his love, and therefore, of his life; and to convert this life into its opposite, would be to destroy the spirit utterly. SwedenborgHeaven and Hell. 527.

I heard the old, old men say,Every thing alters,And one by one we drop away.They had hands like claws, and their kneesWere twisted like the old thorn treesBy the waters.I heard the old, old men say,All thats beautiful drifts awayLike the waters. W. B. YeatsThe Old Men admiring themselves in the Water.